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Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate Programs

Interdisciplinary Arts Graduate Programs

The School of Interdisciplinary Arts is a Ph.D. and M.A. program that educates scholars and scholar-artists who are grounded in specific disciplines and are able to address the arts through the lens of interdisciplinarity. Because of the emphasis placed on pedagogical training, the majority of Interdisciplinary Arts graduates work in higher education throughout the country and abroad.

The school also hosts an Applied Arts in Health that provides opportunities for fine artists (visual artists, musicians, dancers, performers, filmmakers, writers, etc.) to expand their practice by learning advanced knowledge and practical skills necessary to safely and effectively apply their arts practice within healthcare and public health settings.

Our Graduate Programs

Visiting Scholars

  • Interdisciplinary Guest Lectures

    Visiting scholars in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts

    The School of Interdisciplinary Arts invites scholars from coast to coast and around the world to lecture on topics including visual art, dance, theater, music, film, philosophy of art, and more. 

    Visiting Scholars

Our Students in the News

Ph.D. Student Helps Rewrite Theater History with His Research

Milad Azarm鈥檚 dissertation focuses on postmodern theater, a concept he was introduced to in one of Dr. Matthew Cornish鈥檚 classes.

鈥淚 found that around 1970 and onward, a new form of theater emerged in the United States from the works of Robert Wilson and The Wooster Group,鈥 Azarm said. 鈥淚 found that those are completely different from dramatic, classical structures. Then, I tried to understand whether we still are in that period of the post-dramatic era or not.鈥

More About Azarm's Work

Milad Azarm

Two IArts Students Receive Research Awards

Two IArts graduate students received 红杏视频 Student Enhancement Awards in spring 2025:

  • Kourosh Nejad, graduate student in Interdisciplinary Arts, 鈥淰isual Dialogue between Safavid Persian and Western Art in the Bellini and Davis Muraqqas.鈥 $5,917, mentor: Charles Buchanan
  • Edy Rapika Panjaitan, graduate student in Interdisciplinary Arts, 鈥淗onoring Ancestors: The Toba Batak Mangokal Holi ritual music of North Sumatera, Indonesia.鈥 $6,000, mentor: Garrett Field

More about the Student Awards

Architectural Detail Batak House Lake Toba Samosir Island North Sumatra Indonesia

Students Present at Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference

  • Interdisciplinary Arts Ph.D. candidate Chen Wang鈥檚 paper 鈥淒amaged Nations and Women as National Allegory: Trans-Generational Wartime Memory in 鈥楽tory of Women and Germany, Pale Mother鈥欌 explored trauma and delayed mourning in New German Cinema.
  • Ph.D. candidate Jonah Mathison-Regan鈥檚 鈥淎nother Side of New Hollywood: Sidney Lumet and the Institutional Approach to 1970s American Cinema,鈥 challenged prevailing notions about director Lumet鈥檚 place in the auteur canon.
  • And Baldwin Wallace Lecturer and 红杏视频 Ph.D. candidate Paul Peters鈥 鈥淗ollywood鈥檚 鈥楶rivileged Gaze鈥: How Mainstream Movies Construct the American Cultural Status Quo,鈥 brought both quantitative and qualitative analysis to bear on new millennia mainstream Hollywood film.

More about Their Presentations

Professor Matt Wanat is shown with OHIO students Chen Wang, Jonah Mathison-Regan and Paul Peters at the Midwest Popular Culture Association conference in Chicago.

Recent Dissertation Topics

Explore recently completed dissertation topics by students in our program, discover the breadth of research interest, and the range of topic our students pursue through an interdisciplinary lens.

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